Human Dignity in the Mechanics of Claims

The mechanics of claims focusses predominantly on the claim to life. The claim to life is rooted in the autonomy principle, just like other specific claims. Still, the mechanics of claims does not have a systematic place for the fundamental negation of the status as an autonomous being as such. It is, however, the proctiction of the status as such, which is at the center of the protection of human dignity in German constitutional law. Looked at it from this perspective, the protection of human dignity as the protection of the status of an autonomous human being, appears to be a blind spot of the mechanics of claims. The comment attempts to show, how this blindspot leads to inconsistencies in the mechanics of claims, and how they might be ameliorated if human dignity is considered as an absolute right independent of the claims to life

Tendências no direito público de segurança civil [portug. Übersetzung von: Tendencies in public civil security law]

O direito de segurança civil vem emergindo como uma nova área de compreensão dos estudos jurídicos. A discussão explora as causas deste desenvolvimento, sistematiza diferentes tendências e aborda os desafios deste desenvolvimento. Uma das causas para a segurança civil estar se tornando um problema central no discurso jurídico pode ser relacionada à conexão entre um aumento na sensação de vulnerabilidade, o caráter cada vez mais interligado à internet das sociedades contemporâneas e as tecnologias informativas que impulsionam este desenvolvimento. As tendências que resultam são a internacionalização e centralização das medidas de segurança civil, bem como a imprecisão de diversas fronteiras institucionais e jurídicas. Estes desenvolvimentos apresentam desafios para nossa autonomia coletiva e individual, cuja legislação sobre segurança pública civil deve continuar protegendo

Drafting a composite indicator of validity for regulatory models and legal systems

The aim of this paper is to lay the groundwork for the creation of a composite indicator of the validity of regulatory systems. The composite nature of the indicator implies a) that its construction is embedded in the long-standing theoretical debate and framework of legal validity; b) that it formally contains other sub-indicators whose occurrence is essential to the determination of validity. The paper suggests, in other words, that validity is a second-degree property, i.e., one that occurs only once the justice, efficiency, effectiveness, and enforceability of the system have been checked